No war on terrorism

No war on terrorism
Most people who support the invasion of Iraq and the 'war on terror' refer to what happened in the United States on 9/11 as being the prime cause.

But that suggests that nothing which happened before 9/11 has any relevance.

I am not Islamic but if I were, I might consider the United Nations' sanctions against Iraq which led to the deaths of 1.2m Iraqis, including 500,000 children, a reason for resentment.

The UN set these sanctions with the approval of the Security Council, but it was the United States that steadfastly refused to see them relinquished, despite knowing full well the damage that was being done to ordinary Iraqis.

Indeed as we all know, Madeleine Albright referred to the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children as being "worth it". Worth what, we may ask?

I believe that even in 1996, the coming oil shortage and the danger of sky-high prices were already envisaged and that the deaths of Iraqis and the continuous destruction of the Iraqi infrastructure were already softening up Iraq for a future invasion.

I don't believe there is a war on terrorism or terror.

I believe that all along it has been a war for the world's oil resources and that is why it was necessary for Bush, Blair, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Straw, Powell et al to lie through their teeth to get the invasion up and running.
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